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Polls have closed in Idaho Legislature races. Here’s what we know

In many districts, more-moderate Republicans challenged far-right incumbents for their seats. See how they did.

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May 20 • 12:30 AM EDT • Politics • idahostatesman.com
Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly honours global champions advancing primary health care

Today, the World Health Assembly recognized individuals and institutions whose contributions to global health have gone far beyond the call of duty.

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May 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • who.int
Lost for 150,000 years: Rainforest discovery upends human history

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is rewriting that story. Researchers uncovered evidence that humans were living deep within rainforest environments in present-day Côte d'Ivoire around 150,000 years ago — far earlier than anyone thought possible.

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May 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Farmers, business owners, customers feel the impact of beef prices surging

The cost of beef is surging across the U.S.That surge in price is impacting the entire supply chain from farmers, business owners, to customers.Americans are ea

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May 19 • 5:11 PM EDT • Business • wsbt.com
Forza Horizon 6 is Already a Massive Success

Forza Horizon 6 racks up hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam on day one of its full release, far outperforming prior Forza Horizon games.

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May 19 • 12:50 PM EDT • Technology • thephrasemaker.com
There's a hidden 'third eye' buried in your skull – and scientists think they've finally worked out why | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Far from a spiritual metaphor, a new theory is shedding light on the bizarre evolutionary quirks that gave us a hidden third eye

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May 19 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencefocus.com
Climate, food and health challenges call for one conversation, not separate solutions

In New Orleans, food is the language people use to speak to one another. It is how neighbors greet each other, the center of every gathering and one of the main characters in the city’s own story. So when farmers across Louisiana faced a sudden and severe drought in the summer of 2023, they reached … Continue reading Climate, food and health challenges call for one conversation, not separate solutions

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May 19 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • kresge.org
Wethersfield farm seeks approval to expand into events business

A Wethersfield farm is seeking town approval to expand its business model by hosting events.

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May 19 • 9:04 AM EDT • Business • hartfordbusiness.com
Barnes & Thornburg adds entertainment law partner to Nashville office

Attorney Farrah Usmani joins national law firm’s entertainment, media and sports practice

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May 19 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • nashvillepost.com
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Fargo Theatre field trips are more than just entertainment for kids

Each year, Fargo's iconic theater brings history of the venue, the city and the entertainment industry to life for students.

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May 19 • 8:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • inforum.com
Scientists stunned by new Yellowstone discovery: what it means for the next eruption - Futura-Sciences

Yellowstone: The Supervolcano That Never Sleeps Yellowstone is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Why? It’s a supervolcano, known for its potential to unleash absolutely colossal eruptions. The last time it blew was around 70,000 years ago, but make no mistake—the volcano is far...

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
'Leeds must seize this moment at all costs'

After a tremendous finish to the season, Daniel Farke has called for Leeds United to invest heavily this summer. Had Farke found the formula faster, Leeds would be challenging for Europe. With meaningful investment and using these tactics from the start of next season, United could realistically place much higher than their current position of 14th.

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May 19 • 7:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Post AI analysis of sports on TV detected an excess of gambling ads

Has the marketing gone too far?

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May 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • washingtonpost.com
Meet Ed Gallrein, the man in the middle of the Donald Trump-Thomas Massie fight

The race against Rep. Thomas Massie has overshadowed the campaign for Ed Gallrein, the farmer and former Navy SEAL recruited to run against him.

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May 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
How farmers reap benefits of historic meat science discoveries

Nebraska’s meat science department is celebrating its 100th birthday, and the impact of the program runs deep in the livestock industry.

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May 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • farmprogress.com
Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far.

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May 18 • 6:53 PM EDT • Technology • zdnet.com
This unsealed Apollo 17 photo is the 'most significant evidence' in new UAP release, says doc director

'The Age of Disclosure' director Dan Farah reacts to the new tranche of UAP files released by the Department of War, singling out one image from the Apollo 17 moon landing as the 'most significant evidence.'

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May 18 • 5:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Business of the Week: Together for Youth

BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Together for Youth is the Greater Binghamton Chamber Business of the Week. First formed 140 years ago under the name Berkshire Farm Center, it has now grown into a st...

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May 18 • 5:19 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Pitbull hits the road for ‘I’m Back’ North American tour: How to secure last-minute ticket deals

Pitbull is currently on the road in the U.S. as part of his extensive I'm Back! tour. After performing a handful of shows so far, the Grammy Award-winning artist still has over 30 show dates left in the U.S. this year.

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May 18 • 2:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • al.com
Popular Thai-inspired cocktail bar in Highland Park temporarily closed by health department

A popular Highland Park cocktail bar that serves Thai street food-inspired fare has temporarily closed its doors after county health inspectors cited it for health code violations. The Goldfish at …

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May 18 • 1:19 PM EDT • Health • ktla.com
Trump’s Taiwan ‘negotiating chip’ remark sparks alarm over how far he'd shift US-China policy

Trump suggests $14 billion Taiwan weapons package could be used as leverage in China negotiations, drawing swift pushback from Taiwan's president.

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May 18 • 12:56 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Justice Department announces a $1.7 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' fund to compensate Trump allies

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in announcing the fund in a statement that it was "a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress."

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May 18 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Texas politics has a bigger antisemitism problem than District C

Joe Panzarella’s runoff win came despite a late attack over a CAIR endorsement, but other Texas candidates deserve far more serious scrutiny over antisemitism, writes Opinion Editor Evan Mintz.

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Politics • houstonchronicle.com
McFarlane on Alonso appointment, player fitness and Spurs

Chelsea interim boss Calum McFarlane has been speaking to the media before Tuesday's Premier League game against Tottenham at Stamford Bridge (kick-off 20:15 BST). Chelsea announced former Real Madrid boss Xabi Alonso as their new manager on Sunday.

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May 18 • 7:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Guardiola's final farewell?

It's the beginning of a defining week for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola, with Monday and Tuesday deciding whether the Premier League title race goes to the wire or comes to an abrupt halt. Arsenal face already-relegated Burnley later and City know they are likely to need to collect three points at Bournemouth on Tuesday, otherwise it will all be over. City have already won the FA Cup and Carabao Cup this season, but can they make it a domestic treble?

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May 18 • 6:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Calculated' Salah has 'sensed an opportunity and taken it'

Not for the first time this season, Mohamed Salah seems to have taken a thinly veiled dig at the manager. You can't apportion blame when we don't know the full story and why Salah feels the way he does. It will now be interesting to see in that final game of the season at Anfield, his farewell to the supporters and the City, how Slot reacts in terms of team selection and how the fans react to a legend going out in unsavoury fashion.

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May 18 • 4:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The Aid Report: A shock to the system: Global health after US aid cuts

The abrupt freeze and rollback of US foreign assistance in early 2025 disrupted far more than clinics and medical supply chains.

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May 17 • 9:24 PM EDT • Health • eatg.org
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Should the Chicago White Sox Extend Munetaka Murakami?

Munetaka Murakami is playing far beyond the contract the White Sox signed him to last winter.

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May 17 • 8:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Willowbrook Farms kicks off the season with spring opening and small business celebration

Willowbrook Farms hosted its official Spring Opening and Small Business Celebration on Sunday.the event serves as a grand kick-off to the season, bringing the

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May 17 • 7:08 PM EDT • Business • wsbt.com
Budget conference: House, Senate disagree on earplugs earmark for police hearing protection

The Senate has so far declined to match the House’s proposed $2 million allocation for the equipment.

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May 17 • 6:00 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
White House: China to buy at least $17B in US agricultural products per year

The White House said Sunday that China is set to purchase at least $17 billion in agricultural products from the U.S. per year, a move that comes after President Trump’s recent China trip. In a fac…

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May 17 • 5:07 PM EDT • Business • thehill.com
🚨 Lewandowski's farewell; Barça and Betis starting XIs

Barcelona and Betis go into today’s game with their homework already done: one are champions, the others have secured Champions League football, so today they only have to enjoy themselves.And bid f...

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May 17 • 2:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hydroponic System Boosts Science Program

Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom logo ” data-image-caption=” Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom logo ” data-large-file=”https://www.midwestfarmreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/vertical3-e1670437798419-864×1024.jpg”> Kaukauna teacher Nick Mees

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May 17 • 1:52 PM EDT • Science • q106.com
God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution

In effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature. In other words…

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May 17 • 1:01 PM EDT • Science • mindmatters.ai
Leeds 1-0 Brighton: What Farke and Calvert-Lewin said

Leeds United extended their Premier League unbeaten streak to eight games (W4 D4), which is their longest run in the competition since November 2001 (13). Daniel Farke's side have won three consecutive Premier League home games for the first time since August 2001 (5 in a row).

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May 17 • 12:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Hantavirus Might Not Dent the Booming Expedition-Cruise Business

Cruise lines like Oceanwide Expeditions struck gold by specializing in intimate sailings to far-flung places.

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May 17 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Xbox Takes #1 Spot In Metacritic's Top 10 Video Games Of 2026 So Far

But bizarrely it doesn't top the Series X and Series S list

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May 17 • 11:00 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com
Knicks Bulletin: ‘I just try to look at the positives’

Nothing better than a Game 7, amirite? Actually, there’s something even better about today’s matchup, as the Knicks aren’t involved and will be just enjoying the bloodbath from afar! Here’s the latest from Tarrytown as New York patiently waits to know its ECF foe. Mike Brown On supporting Mikal Bridges amid benching questions: “I was […]

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May 17 • 10:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chris MacFarland Makes His Case For GM Of The Year
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May 17 • 10:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Don’t Call It A Fat Farm: Hilton Head Health Celebrates 50 Years

Over the past several decades Hilton Head Health evolved into a wellness resort that includes programs on nutrition, movement, mindset, stress recovery and exercise.

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May 17 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • forbes.com
Why We Can’t Cut Earth Science to Fund the Next Earthrise Shot

We love space, but not as an abstraction. For my twin sons, it is a tradition. Their birthday themes have evolved from “Two the Moon” for their second birthday, featured on NASA.gov, to “From Space to the Farm,” with the boys in those iconic orange astronaut suits, standing in a cornfield. In the ye...

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May 17 • 7:01 AM EDT • Science • thefulcrum.us
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Trump Says he’s a Builder. His Peace Deals are Far from Sturdy.

Arab officials worry Trump will leave them in a lurch with Iran.

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May 17 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Barcelona sporting director working on fixing overreliance on Spanish international

Barcelona’s dominance this season can be credited to a mix of team effort that has been auguring well for the club under Hansi Flick.The club have also appeared far less reliant on their star player...

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May 17 • 6:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Q-Mart business owner avoids jail for conduct with underage employees

The owner of Poppy's Peanuts in the Quakertown Farmers Market was sentenced to probation for inappropriate conduct toward teen employees.

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May 17 • 5:08 AM EDT • Business • phillyburbs.com
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China launches new war on deserts with technology tested on far side of the moon

Projects meant to help Xinjiang region build ecological barrier to protect its arable land from erosion and desertification.

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May 17 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
Letter from the editor: Farewell from the executive science editor

Journalism was probably the last thing on my radar when I walked through the club fair as a first-year. And for most of my time at Tufts, it stayed that way. My best friend Carmen was super involved in that world, but her involvement was the closest I got to that space.

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May 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • tuftsdaily.com
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. 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AYANEO Pocket Block Leak Points to a Smaller, Cheaper Android Handheld

A leaked user manual and renders reveal the AYANEO Pocket Block, an upcoming vertical Android gaming handheld. Here is everything we know so far.

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Exiled Muslim scholar warns far-left–Islamist alliance behind anti-Israel protests echoes Iran’s rise

Muslim scholar who fled Egypt warns America's far-left alliance with Islamist extremism could repeat Iran's 1979 revolution pattern in the U.S. today.

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Indiana Farmer Balances High-Profile Ag Politics With Family Farm Values

Indiana farmer Tyler Everett shares his experience welcoming Brooke Rollins into his combine and meeting President Trump. Back on the farm, he focuses on making smart financial choices and protecting family time.

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What to know about Harvey Weinstein's cases after his recent mistrial

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge declared a mistrial Friday in Harvey Weinstein ’s rape case from the #MeToo-era that has gone to trial three times so far

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Andalucíans to vote in election seen as gauge of Spain’s wider political change

Conservatives expected to keep majority as socialists face drubbing and ballot tests trajectory of far-right Vox party

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Middle school students in Kaukauna gets hands‑on with food production

Kaukauna teacher brings modern agriculture to middle schoolers with hydroponic growing system.

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A North Carolina farmer is testing whether Democrats can still win rural America

In North Carolina, Jamie Ager is distancing himself from his national party to win a congressional seat.

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In a Fracturing UK, Nigel Farage Emerges as Nationalist Nemesis

With the UK government in crisis, the specter of a Reform leadership one day is shifting the political dynamic in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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New Business: Campo Enoteca to expand to Nashua; Yamas Greek Eatery opens in Concord

Eric Maxwell bought Campo Enoteca, a farm-to-table Italian restaurant on Elm Street in Manchester, three years ago with the idea he would eventually expand.

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What to know about the mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

A New York has declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case from the #MeToo-era that has gone to trial three times so far after a jury was unable to

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What to know about the mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

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What to know about the mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie reveals new wave of toys, rollout starts this summer

Jakks Pacific today unveiled a new set of toys it has planned in collaboration with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. New products will begin rolling out this summer. So far we have the most information about the Chomping Wonder Bowser Jr. feature figure. It comes in at over 8 inches tall with “dynamic, action-packed fun with 13 points of articulation...

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Conspiracist Erection Expert Leads U.S. Hantavirus Response

Admiral and urologist Brian Christine platformed far-right conspiracies about COVID and the 2020 election on his podcast, per a new report.

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Pasta business brings new flavor to Falls Park Farmers Market

A new business offering homemade pasta is among this season's new vendors at the Falls Park Farmers Market.

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A new Ebola outbreak is confirmed in a remote Congo province, with 65 deaths recorded

Africa CDC, the continent’s top public health body, on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far.

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Proposed VHC Health facility needs more public input, County Board candidates say

The three Democratic candidates for County Board are all in favor of extensive community input on a proposal for a new behavioral health facility in Glencarlyn. "You need to listen -- it needs to be community-first," challenger Julie Farnam said at a debate hosted by the Arlington County Civic Federation on Tuesday. Farnam and James DeVita

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Starmer, Burnham, Farage, Polanski: they make a week in politics feel like an eternity in Hades

It’s your life in their hands, but what kind of life is that? No wonder a wearied, confused public has mobilised into tribes – or just tuned out, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Active 10-year-old makes his mark as hospital ambassador

Owen Ragsdale is the 2026 Sanford Children's Hospital Ambassador, and so far he is making the hard parts of his life look like fun.

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Should Your Subscription Business Use Auto-Renew?

Subscription businesses obsess over pricing and churn, but the most consequential strategic choice may be far simpler: whether subscriptions auto-renew or auto-cancel. Drawing on a 1.4 million–person field experiment with a major European newspaper, the authors show that while auto-renewal boosts short-term retention, it suppresses trial sign-ups so sharply that auto-cancel ultimately produces more paying subscribers and higher-quality customers over time. The right approach depends on two factors—whether customers are naturally loyal or variety-seeking, and whether a company is an incumbent defending share or a challenger trying to acquire it—making renewal defaults a competitive strategy decision, not merely an operational setting.

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Five intriguing Phillies prospects raking down on the farm

The Phillies’ farm system has featured several strong offensive starts, including breakout showings from Alirio Ferrebus, Bryan Rincon and Dante Nori.

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Idaho farmers can band together to buy cheaper health insurance through Farm Bureau deal

As Idaho farmers struggle to find affordable health insurance, a new deal lets them buy cheaper plans through the Idaho Farm Bureau.

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Which NHL coaches were fired during the 2025-26 season?

There were six coaches fired during the 2025-26 season. Were each of them warranted, and how did they fare during their tenure with their former clubs?

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How a Jim Caviezel film got mixed up in a Brazilian political scandal

American actor Jim Caviezel's upcoming feature "Dark Horse," a biopic about former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has been billed by a movie industry publication as a thriller about the far-right firebrand's battle "against a ​corrupt establishment."

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FedEx board approves trucking business spinoff

A new standalone FedEx Freight may resemble a start-up, but the LTL carrier is far from it, experts say.

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America's most powerful CEOs don't have much to show from their China trip so far

With red-carpet treatment, selfies and culinary diplomacy, America's richest and most powerful executives - from Tesla's ​Elon Musk to Nvidia's Jensen Huang - sought to rekindle business ties with China this week at a leadership summit in Beijing.

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Galaxy Z Fold 8 pricing: will the foldable iPhone and Pixel 11 Pro Fold make it look overpriced?

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Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene: In some Harry Potter version of 21st-century London, a group of deathless UK Treasury officials gathered from across the last century huddle over warm pints and glasses of Chardonnay. Around the table there are officials from the 1920s, the 1930s, the 1970s, 2022 and today. Inevitably, in May 2026, the subject of conversation is the disintegration of the current Labour government. Despite its huge majority in parliament, it has been reduced to tatters by catastrophic local election result. These exposed the fact that rather than having a government with a clear popular majority, the UK is like most other modern societies divided into 5 segments each of which commands between 26 and 16 percent of the vote. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the leadership at Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street - where the Prime Minister and the Chancellor (Treasury Secretary) work - seem paralyzed. They are caught between mounting discontent over unfairness and the cost of living, and tough fiscal strictures that push them into making unpopular spending decisions. In the London pub, the Treasury officials from across the ages, can barely hide their satisfaction at the latest display of democratic politics caught in the vice-grip of financial logic. “Remember the mur d’argent and the banker’s ramp?” “Just like yesterday!” There are smirks around the table. Then the representative of 2026 pipes up: “One thing you have to say about the current lot (referring to the latest hapless Labour government), you don’t have to teach them about the bond market!” There is a murmur of ascent from the Treasury Mandarins. The trauma of the fiscal crisis of September-October 2022 sits deep. Back then, in the final stages of Tory decay, a ‘mini budget’ that challenged fiscal orthodoxy led to a brief but fierce panic in one of the oldest government bond markets in the world (aka gilt market). Now all you have to do is to mention the “bond market” to hush debate. [ Paul Mason@paulmasonnews In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/ 3:57 PM · May 12, 2026 · 466K Views 224 Replies · 674 Reposts · 3.93K Likes ](https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/2054229532404519082?s=20) “And the funny thing is”, the young man in the huddle continues, “they don’t even want to talk about … ”. There is a sudden hush. Significant looks are exchanged around the table. About? One of the senior figures puts down his glass with a decisive “clink”. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has entered their thoughts. Meanwhile, a few miles away in a grubby pub in Bloomsbury, two conspirators from the camp of Critical Macrofinance huddle over cans of low-alcohol IPA. They look at each other and blurt out loud: “The Bank!” “Everyone in the bloody Labour party is talking about the bond market. But why aren’t they even mentioning … the Bank of England!?” “Why is no one talking about Voldemort?” In Paul Mason’s blogpost, after much chest-thumping about basic fiscal logic, the basic point about the Bank of England is buried in the fine print at #3 in his list of suggestions as to what a radical Labour government might actually be able to do! [ Conflict & Democracy Down with the bond market! Down with gravity! It may seem unfair to focus on Labour MP Paula Barker for her off-the-cuff assertion that the bond market would have to “fall in line” with Andy Burnham, should he replace Keir Starmer as prime minister. But Burnham himself told the New Statesman that Labour had to “get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets… Read more 2 days ago · 100 likes · 3 comments · Paul Mason ](https://htsf.substack.com/p/down-with-the-bond-market-down-with?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web) Back in Bloomsbury they shake their heads and ask: “Didn’t we learn anything from the Eurozone crisis?” Meanwhile, as if summoned to the conversation by some higher force, the “pink pages” announce: “The days of ultra-cheap government borrowing have come to an end” and Martin “Whizzard” Wolf publishes the graph of the season Look at the UK in 2026, perilously positioned on the upper edge of the pack. No wonder no one in London needs any lessons about the “bond market”. But, look again. Imagine how they feel in Rome. What is London’s nightmare in 2026? The nightmare is that you end up like Italy in the early 2010s during the Eurozone crisis. Once comfortably situated in the middle of the pack, watching with horror as your ten-year yields explode to 7 percent and “spreads” become a national nightmare. One of the largest economies in Europe, a founding member of the euro, stigmatized. But the message of the Italian experience is ambiguous. After all, the stigma didn’t last. In 2026, Italy borrows at rates lower not only than the UK but the US. The US, which, as everyone knows, enjoys the “exorbitant privilege” of being the issuer of reserve, safe asets. What kind of magic is this? How did Italy, in the space of fifteen years, go from being good, to bad and back again? Which brings us back to our dissident friends in their Bloombury boozer and their memories of the Eurozone crisis. Italy never was Britain - with its ongoing fiscal deficits. Without interest payments, on primary balance, from 2000 to 2020 Italy ran a tight fiscal ship. Even in 2008 it barely went into deficit and when it was being put on the rack in the early 20210s its primary surplus matched that of austere Germany. So, what happened? How did it end up stigmatized? Of course Italian politics didn’t help. Berlusconi was at the helm and he had legal issues. But amongst friends in the Bloomsbury pub, Berlusconi is a sideshow, the name we whisper to each other is “Trichet”. From 2004 to 2011 the ECB was headed by Jean-Claude Trichet, ex of the French Treasury, more German than the Germans. After 2009 as the news of the Greek fiscal disaster broke, the European bond markets wento into panic mode and Trichet began a brutal game of cat and mouse. Between 2009 and 2011, Trichet intervened in the bond market to help, only when he thought he had compliance with austerity. When he thought they were uncooperative, he withdrew. In the summer of 2011, he even made direct suggestions to his Italian counterparts in Rome, as to how Italy should be governed. It was this cat and mouse game that drove the bond markets crazy and exposed Italy to a violent squeeze. When Mario Draghi took over the ECB at the end of 2011 and declared “whatever it takes”, the pressure on Italy, gradually eased. It is that starring role that has made Draghi into the towering figure in European politics that he remains today. So now you see why voices in London hush when it comes to the Bank of England. “The bond market” isn’t an irresistible objective force like the weather or an avalanche. It can appear like that. But that depends on the way it is being handled, or not handled by the central bank. Which is why the silence about the Bank of England in London right now is so significant. If you think this all sounds a bit fishy, coming from a left-liberal Keynesian like myself, well, let me introduce you to Robin Brooks, who, to put it mildly, plays on a different quidditch team to me. Here, from the position of a fiscal hawk is Robin’s celebratory account of the Bank of England’s role since 2022; In October 2022, at the height of the bond market blow-up in the UK, something incredible happened. Governor Andrew Bailey told British pension funds the Bank of England would end its support program for the country’s fragile gilt market, drawing a line under how much help the central bank was willing to give to exposed pension funds and - implicitly - the government. By the end of that week, Kwasi Kwarteng - the finance minister - had resigned. Prime Minister Liz Truss would soon follow. This episode is so incredible because it contrasts with what happened in the Euro zone earlier that year. Bond markets in Spain and Italy were under pressure amid high inflation and rising interest rates. In the middle of this, Mario Draghi - Italy’s Prime Minister - resigned, compounding pressure on bond markets of high-debt countries on the Euro periphery. Unlike the Bank of England, the ECB caved. It bought Italian and Spanish government bonds in an effort to cap yields and introduced a new tool that signaled to markets it might do such caps more frequently going forward. Faced with pressure on bond markets, the ECB capitulated to political pressure from high-debt countries like Italy and Spain. The Bank of England stood its ground and toppled the Truss government. This kind of thing has long-lasting consequences. It means markets price a higher probability of yield caps in the Euro zone, which keeps Italian and Spanish yields artificially low, while markets feel free to push up UK yields without fear of central bank intervention. As I flagged in yesterday’s post, this means you really can’t compare UK yields to those of other high-debt countries. The UK looks worse, but only because its central bank isn’t interfering with markets. There’s more to this than just that 2022 episode. The Bank of England has also been much more aggressive in its quantitative tightening (QT) than other central banks. If one motivation for quantitative easing (QE) is to lower bond yields - especially longer-dated ones - then it stands to reason QT pushes yields up. The left chart above shows a four-quarter moving average of UK government debt issuance (black line) in percent of GDP and which sectors absorb this issuance, including the Bank of England (blue bars). The right chart above compares the Bank of England’s accumulation or run-off of government bonds (blue line) with that of other central banks, where this blue line is the same as the blue bars in the left chart. The Bank of England was quicker and more aggressive than other central banks in downsizing its bond holdings, so UK yields will have risen more than elsewhere also for this reason, not just because of Governor Andrew Bailey’s remarks in October 2022. Back in October 2025, after a conversation in New York with friends in British politics, my sense of dysphoria was such that I raised the issue of the Bank of England openly in the FT Since 2008, the UK has slid into a deep economic and political predicament. Growth has stagnated to a degree far worse even than in the 1970s. The Tory leadership’s wager on the Brexit referendum spectacularly backfired, leaving the UK isolated from Europe and at the mercy of its special relationship with the US, many of whose political class regard the UK as a basket case. After years of austerity, the Labour party lurched to the left and then back to the centre. The Tory party has been eclipsed by the populist nationalism of Reform. Any British government should be worrying first and foremost about how to restart growth. Instead, Keir Starmer is beset by shades of the gilt market panic triggered by the Liz Truss government in 2022. The debt level is higher than in recent years, but there is no cause for panic. UK debt is at far from critical levels and of long duration. Whether you want to “take back control” or launch progressive economic policy, a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy. In a country that is a monetary sovereign, this climate points to one thing: a disconnect between the government and the central bank. Since 1997, the independence of the Bank of England has become a sacred cow. But independence is what you make of it. And in the wake of the gilt market crisis of September 2022, relations between the Bank of England and the UK government need a reset. In normal times, there is no doubt that an inflation-targeting independent central bank can serve a country well. But since 2008, the UK and other advanced economies have not had the luxury of such simple problems. To their credit, central bankers around the world have not stood on orthodoxy. After 2008, the US Federal Reserve rescued the global banking system and, through quantitative easing, it stabilised the Treasury market in the face of huge deficits. In Europe, things were trickier. Both the Bank of England under Mervyn King and Jean-Claude Trichet’s European Central Bank played cat and mouse with national governments. This was a high stakes wager that between 2010 and 2012 escalated bond market tension and triggered a disastrous turn to austerity. Shaken by the impact of those shocks, their successors, Mark Carney and Mario Draghi adopted a more protective stance (assuming you were not the government of Greece). Recall that Draghi’s legendary slogan, “Whatever it takes”, was uttered to face down the City of London’s bond vigilantes. In 2015, Draghi launched QE — financial repression by another name. In 2016, Carney used the authority of the Bank of England to stabilise markets following the vote for Brexit, an exemplary demonstration of how central banks can underpin democratic choice, even when those choices are wrong headed. All these were independent central bankers steeped in the best practice of the 1990s, who recognised that historic crises demanded radical action. It was the price surge of 2021-2023 that poisoned the atmosphere. Though the shock came mainly from the supply side, central banks ended up in the dock. Nowhere more so than in the UK. The Bank of England reacted with aggressive normalisation. Faced with a cost of living crisis, the governor called for workers to accept real wage cuts. In early 2022, as gas prices were at record levels and Russia’s army was poised to invade Ukraine, the Bank adopted a stringent programme of quantitative tightening, elevating interest rates. When the Truss government got itself in trouble, the Bank took almost a week to come to the rescue. Rather than enacting a charade of normality, it is time to recognise that in 2025 the UK faces a period of historic transition. To meet this challenge, what is needed is a new concordat with the Bank. This should not ignore inflationary pressures or the long-run trajectory of debt, but should affirm the priority of reviving investment-led growth. One could follow Donald Trump in demanding interest rate cuts. The Bank could shadow the ECB in its commitment to capping Eurozone yields. But the top priority should be to lay the ghost of September 2022. The Bank’s slowing of QT last month was a concession. An immediate and complete end would send the right signal. Such a concordat will not by itself restore sanity to politics, solve the housing problem or rebuild the NHS. But it would help to lift the fear of bond market crisis, which is paralysing the effort by democratic politicians to answer the fundamental questions facing the nation. Now, that call for a new concordat between government and Bank of Englands seems more urgent than ever. The problem is that in October 2025, Starmer still had some authority. Today the government is in tatters. And when you are the “under the harrow” - to echo a phrase of Montagu Norman’s from the 1920s - it is the worst possible time to consider institutional change. To make general arguments at a time of crisis can only seem like special pleading rather than a general argument for long-term change. The same, unfortunately, is also true for the other basic institutional reform that Britain urgently needs i.e. the abolition of the out-dated first past the post electoral system and its replacement by a moderated form of proportional representation. And thirdly - whilst we are saying the quiet parts out loud - Britain needs to reopen the question of EU membership. What the local election results of 2026 show is that this remains a key issue. And what they also show is that there is a clear majority that would favor a return. Until these basic features of Britain’s political economy are addressed the country will carry on its politics as though in a haunted house, governed by governments that lack actual majorities, conjuring up false constraints whilst ignoring the real ones. This one is for DG and MI. I love writing the newsletter. If you enjoy it too and fancy buying me a coffee once a month, you know what to do. Click below! Subscribe

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Lamar Alexander on Six Decades in Power — And the Future of the GOP

Ahead of his new memoir, the former senator reflects on nearly 60 years of public service, the presidents he’s served and Trump’s GOP.

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California legislators kill new spending programs and blame Trump for funding cuts

The biannual ‘suspense file’ hearing is the Legislature’s most efficient tool for killing costly or controversial proposals without fanfare

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Xperia 1 VIII AI photos outrage: Nothing CEO calls out Sony for "engagement farming"

Sony's Xperia 1 VIII launch is facing backlash over its AI Camera Assistant, with critics roasting the flagship phone for its questionable AI image processing. Amid "engagement farming" accusations from Nothing CEO Carl Pei, the key to the controversy might be a marketing misunderstanding.

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NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves

NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance levels hundreds of times beyond current spaceflight computers while surviving punishing tests designed to mimic the harsh conditions of space. The technology could enable AI-powered spacecraft, faster scientific discoveries, and smarter missions to the Moon and Mars.

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A grad student’s wild idea sparks a major aging breakthrough

A casual conversation between graduate students helped spark a breakthrough in aging research at Mayo Clinic. Researchers discovered that tiny synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can selectively attach to senescent “zombie cells,” which are linked to aging, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease. The method could eventually help scientists identify and target these cells in living tissue with far greater precision.

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As travel costs surge, companies are being forced to rethink business trips

Rising fuel and airfare costs are beginning to reshape how companies approach business travel, Fortune writes. Fuel transaction costs jumped 14% in a single month, while airfare, hotels and rental cars also moved higher, squeezing corporate travel budgets, according to new data from SAP Concur, which tracks expense activity for millions of business travelers worldwide. […]

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Anthropic And Gates Foundation Sign $200 Million Partnership For AI Use In Health, Education, Agriculture

The partnership commits $200 million over four years to develop AI tools for use in vaccine research, farming guidance, education and other areas.

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Hantavirus Is Scary. Your Daily Habits Are More Dangerous.

Why rare diseases like hantavirus generate fear while heart disease, loneliness, obesity, and poor sleep quietly cause far greater harm.

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Rutgers Students Bring Science Stories to the National Stage at Planet Forward Storyfest

For eight Rutgers students, the George Washington University Planet Forward Environmental Storyfest in April was more than a conference. It was an opportunity to show how science storytelling can transform complex research into deeply human stories that connect with audiences far beyond the laboratory. Representing the university at one of the nation’s leading gatherings for […]

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Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks

The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread among people without direct contact.

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Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

The handmade, $4,000 Monster Wolf features solar panels, sensors, and intimidating audio.

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Click It or Ticket Kick off with Washington Co Health Department

Local law enforcement and community partners are inviting residents to a “Click It or Ticket” Seatbelt Safety Event aimed at promoting seat belt use as summer travel increases.

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The real reason Americans hate the economy so much

Did decades of low inflation make the public far more unforgiving when it finally did surge?

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Tracking the major Supreme Court cases of 2026

CNN is tracking the key Supreme Court cases for the 2025-2026 term, which will have far-reaching implications for millions of Americans.

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May 14 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
New UFO Files Suggest Something Strange Is Happening in The Skies

Not aliens, but the mystery is far from over.

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May 13 • 11:11 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Don Mattingly Sends Words of Encouragement to Struggling Andrew Painter

It's been a very ugly start to Andrew Painter's professional career with the Philadelphia Phillies, though it's still far too early to press the panic button just yet.

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May 13 • 10:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Meta Challenges New Mexico's $3.7 Billion Plan for Teen Mental Health in Social Media Trial

By Diana Novak Jones May 13 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Meta Platforms on ⁠Wednesday ⁠argued that New Mexico's $3.7 billion proposal to ⁠address teen mental health harms goes too far, saying it would force the company to pay for mental health care for all of the state's teenagers and not just those it ...

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May 13 • 7:11 PM EDT • Health • usnews.com
For Yale senior, a love of science and of languages opened up new worlds

Some classmates were confused by Audrey Aslani-Far’s interest in studying both science and Russian as a Yale student. But to her, the combination makes perfect sense: both disciplines help a person to better read the world.

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May 13 • 2:19 PM EDT • Science • news.yale.edu
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Ford Stock Soars On Energy Business Optimism

Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) shares are skyrocketing Wednesday. Morgan Stanley released new research arguing that the company's energy storage ambitions are far more valuable than the market currently recognizes, putting the stock on pace for its best session since March 2020. Here’s what you should know. Ford Motor stock is among today’s top performers. What’s behind F gains? What’s Pushing Ford Higher? Morgan Stanley analyst Andrew Percoco reiterated an Equal‑weight rating and kept a $14 price targe

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May 13 • 1:40 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Apple Explores Ways to Welcome AI Agents in the App Store

Apple is exploring ways to better incorporate AI agents into its App Store so it can benefit from the tech industry’s hottest trend while ensuring that the software in its store continues to play by its rules, according to people briefed on the matter. So far, the widespread embrace of agentic ...

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May 13 • 1:17 PM EDT • Technology • theinformation.com
Taiwan anxiously eyes Trump’s summit in China, with $14 billion in US arms sales up in the air

As President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week, Taiwan will be nervously monitoring from afar to ascertain whether its political status and critical arms purchases come up in discussions between the two leaders.

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May 13 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Moscow invites far-right German politicians to ‘Putin’s Davos’

At least two lawmakers in the Kremlin-friendly AfD intend to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June.

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May 13 • 9:58 AM EDT • Politics • politico.eu
Scientists and Virginia aquaculture industry unite to prepare for ocean acidification

Research by William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS is bringing together scientists, shellfish farmers and community planners to prepare for environmental challenges related to ocean and coastal acidification in the Chesapeake Bay.

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May 13 • 9:51 AM EDT • Science • eurekalert.org
Is Accel Entertainment (ACEL) Stock Outpacing Its Consumer Discretionary Peers This Year?

Here is how Accel Entertainment (ACEL) and Central Garden (CENTA) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.

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May 13 • 9:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
From MAGA pastor to J6 prosecutor, what’s hot in WA politics

Two Washington state House campaigns are far outpacing the other 200 in early fundraising. It shows how politics right now is either all-in with Trump’s MAGA movement, or all-out.

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May 13 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com